Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 1740277147

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-132094

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 394 S.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XIV. Summary of conclusions and recommendations

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2 MAJORITY REPORT. by reason of arrears due to genuine certified unemployment. (para. 655.) (118) That no departure should be made from the principle that the benefits derived from the compulsory contributions of employers and employed persons should not be applied towards the relief of local rates, and that provision should not therefore be made for payments to Poor Liaw Authorities out of the sums accruing as benefit in the case of insured persons who are inmates of Poor Liaw Institutions and have no dependants. (para. 493.) (119) That it is open to question whether propaganda work undertaken in the interests of the health of the whole community should be financed only from insurance funds; that the duties should more appropriately fall within the province of the I.ocal Health Authority, particularly having regard to the provisions of Section 67 of the Public Health Act, 1925. (para. 391.) (120) That Section 24 (3) of the Act should be amended so as to debar any Insurance Committee or Local Authority succeeding to its powers and duties from approving mn future any organisa- tion for the purpose of ‘‘ collective own arrangements ’’ for medical benefit, and to provide that the provisions of the sub- section shall not be applied ctherwise than to individual insured persons ; subject to the qualification that the proposed restriction should not apply to cases in which nurses or other resident employees of hospitals normally receive medical treatment and attendance from the medical staffs of the hospitals in accordance with the terms of their employment. (para. 647.) (121) That existing medical institutions which have already received recognition under Section 24 (3) should be continued, approval being given to them under Section 24 (4). (para. 648.) (122) That while there is no evidence of failure sufficient to justify the recommendation that existing medical institutions under Section 24 (4) should no longer be recognised, approval should not be given to any further such institutions except as provided in (121) above ; and that no rule of any such institution should purport to debar a member of the institution from carrying an appeal as to his medical treatment to the Insurance Com- mittee of the area. (para. 643.) In concluding our Report we wish to express to Your Majesty our high appreciation of the invaluable services rendered to us by our Secretary, Mr. KE. Hackforth, of the Ministry of Health, and our Assistant Secretary, Mr. J. W. Peck, C.B., of the Scottish Board of Health, both throughout the long course of the hearing of evidence and in connexion with the exacting work of the preparation of our Report. In such an investigation as that on which we have been envaged, where the points at issue are often concealed in the

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